Days of our Lives (pre-destruction of Will and Sonny); runners-up: ATWT, Sunset Beach, OLTL, Y&R

As far as I'm concerned, Chandler was already a shoe-in for the award this year before the nominations were even announced. No other soap has an actor in the under-twenty-five category who is even close to competing with him.

That said, I'd love to see a tie with Freddie Smith just because...but it won't happen unless the majority of the voters simply agree with my opinion that it would be cool to see both of the actors in the storyline receive awards (in which case it won't be about the acting as much as it will be about the statement, and, hypothetical fantasy scenarios aside, I'm not sure that I want to see that happen). As much as I love Freddie, Chandler is clearly the more deserving actor (this year, at least), so the award should go to him alone.